An ontology to support the interoperability of biodiversity data, including data on museum collections, environmental/metagenomic samples, and ecological surveys.
bco
BCO
Local identifiers in Biological Collections Ontology should match this
regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological Collections Ontology should match
this regular expression:
^BCO:\d{7}$
A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.
bioregistry.schema:0000018
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The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.
Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
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AberOWL
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aberowl |
BCO
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AgroPortal
|
agroportal |
BCO
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BioContext | biocontext |
BCO
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BioPortal
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bioportal |
BCO
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EcoPortal
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ecoportal |
BCO
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FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.8ktkqy
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OBO Foundry
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obofoundry |
bco
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OLS
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ols |
bco
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OntoBee
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ontobee |
BCO
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When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BCO_$1
A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier 0000081
is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Biological Collections Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.